| 单词 | barrel |
| 例句 | He sat on the horse, turning his mind away, willing it away as a gun barrel swivels, and then he thought of his children, powerless to stop that vision. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A set of stairs curved deeper into the earth, the barreled ceiling held up by more repeating arches, closer together and carved from polished black stone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The door flew open with a bang, and Father barreled out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He comes barreling into me, his bony arms clasped around my torso. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Behind her loomed a burly cameraman in a parka, though all Mrs. McCullough registered was the barrel of a lens and a blinking red light like one glowing eye. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With the barrel of his pistol, he nudges the clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Still barreling at highway speeds, it closed in on the smaller car coming the other way, the distance narrowing by the instant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Words were engraved along the pen’s shiny barrel, and Mrs. Granger had to slide down to the end of the couch and turn on her reading lamp. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned, startled, and found myself looking down the barrel of the longest rifle I had ever seen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If they could sink the boat over the deepest part of the lake, the barrels of heavy water would come to rest 1,300 feet below the surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma roared out, “Rest in peace, you old—” Then she let fly with the other barrel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a singleshot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured it into a baby oak barrel about the size of a loaf of bread. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Another burning tree barrels down the ridge, bouncing off the hillside, before landing. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The squad had just got some new barrels for the sixties and two new M-79 S. They were sitting around a tin can full of carbon tet cleaning the cosmolene off the weapons. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were empty barrels all around, in and out of closets, which Kendra figured must be used for catching milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I stop and Zephyr barrels into me, grabbing my shoulders so I don’t careen face forward into the ground. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There were a couple of miserable wet soldiers manning the gun emplacements, who waved and shouted as the girls on their bicycles came barreling past, brakes screeching with the steepness of the descent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I thanked him, went upstairs and spent at least ten minutes searching around in the barrel for the smallest potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He looked, as he stood there, like a barrel on fire. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Behind a fence of jagged metal, the lot was covered in broken glass and rusty barrels. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z We waited as the black-and-white car barreled up to the house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When boys came over, Kaprice and her stepsister would be sitting at a table with brush, rod, and cloth, expertly taking the guns apart, spinning the barrels, polishing the grips. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Flatnose knelt down, pushed the hanging edge of the sheet aside, and poked around under the bed with the barrel of his gun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then he shook the gun a little, and tapped the barrel, to be sure that all the powder was together in the bottom. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the snowy woods all day, it might have gathered a little dampness, and the inside of the barrel was sure to be dirty from powder smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Two children burst out of a house, put a board across a barrel like a seesaw, and took their positions standing on either end of the board. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For Miss Persimmon, quite against her will, was off the ground and was stumbling through the air, rolling from side to side like a very thin barrel, balancing the tray in her hand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z With his big gut and barrel chest, his flat nose and bristly black jaw, Noye did not make a pretty sight, but he was a welcome one nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The little one barrels into me, wrapping her pudgy arms around my waist. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Bounding up the hill to Fry High, the creature barreled through the hole it created earlier, following its original course to the library. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The older of the two men motioned toward the sofa with the barrel of his weapon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He dodged around the squirrel, who was rolling the barrel along. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The barrel of a gun presses to my temple, a cold circle against my skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehead to the barrel of the gun behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Adam stared at Samuel, but in his mind he saw and felt his brother Charles, black and murderous, and that sight switched to Cathy and the quality of her eyes over the gun barrel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I check out the garbage in the barrel. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I walked in, looked over the brim of the coal barrel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They’d brought slabs of hard salt beef, dried cod, dried beans, turnips, carrots, sacks of barley meal and wheaten flour, pickled eggs, barrels of onions and apples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I saw prototypes when I was working with a gunsmith in Novyi Zem. Multiple guns in the turret, and that big barrel out in front? Serious firepower.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Unsteadily, Jonathan yanked out the ramrod from beneath the gun barrel, where it was lodged. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z "Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt ..." "An inventory," Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He just kept getting tangled in Alex’s legs and then veering off to sniff around benches and dig inside trash barrels. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The bath was like a large beer barrel, and her head was wrapped in a white turban. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Use the juniper sparingly,” he said after peeking in my kindling barrel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They were rolling their barrels and lugging their crates, talking and laughing. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z It vanished behind a metal barrel, meal and all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The shooter was slipping shells into the twin barrels of his gun. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z They rattle down the long gravel lanes, past pit cottages and trash barrel fires, past laid-off miners squatting all day on upturned crates, motionless as statues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Vonetta held up her fork as if it had a trigger and a barrel. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z My body felt like it did the time my sisters rolled me down the hill in a barrel. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But the barrel never came up, and something in my mind just told me I didn’t have to shoot yet. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The bodies sometimes arrived, a dozen or so at a time, in barrels labeled tmpentine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Hanako was surprised at how fast the train was barreling down on them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Slowly, I made out the barrels, eight or nine standing, a couple tipped over. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We climb to the little barrel atop the central mast. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z This thirst for worn things led to casual but habitual examinations of trash barrels in alleys and wastebaskets in public places. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a hammock made of barrel staves slatted into woven wires. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The heads and the rifles stand out above the white mist, nodding heads, rocking barrels. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He still looked like a mighty barrel, but brighter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z To figure out the volume of a barrel or the area under a parabola, mathematicians added infinite zeros together; to find out the tangent of a curve, they divided zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Fragments of wooden crates and barrels lay in piles in different corners, along with rusted metal chains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “I think I’ll do better with bookkeeping than barrel staves, all right. There’s just one part of this that bothers me.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Diana looked as if she was going to shoot, then dropped the barrel of the gun just an inch. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Scene 2: In a back alley, barrels are being rolled out of a truck toward an aproned, beckoning barkeeper and through the back door of a brick building. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran his hand over the gun’s barrel. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Cady looked up from her baking station, just as the man with the greasy black hair wheeled by with his flour barrel. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Stubborn flies quickly formed a lid for it until a group of boys rolled the barrel away and set fire to its contents. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I am barreling through white flame and absolute darkness, the nexus between life and death. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I know she doesn’t have the same love for me right now after I sneaked Alan away from her and brought him into the city, where airstrikes and barrel bombs scorch through the sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The captains gathered around the barrel, examining it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I found a hatchet, broken crockery, a barrel of wormy flour, a mildewy straw tick, a ball of twine, but no rope. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On Monday a man comes and collects three barrels of scraps of fat and brings back one barrel of soft soap on Wednesday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He barreled toward Archer with a wild look in his black eyes, lips pulled back from his teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He takes a step back and raises the barrel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Piles of cane are heavy, bulky, and hard to move, while sugar in tiny crystals can be packed into barrels and shipped by water. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They were led then to seats beside Faramir: barrels covered with pelts and high enough above the benches of the Men for their convenience. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Henry lugs out the half barrel for another neighborhood cookout. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z They were followed by five more serving men, each one carrying a whole cask of mead, a barrel huge enough that each giant struggled beneath the weight of it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Laila turned around and was greeted by the barrel of a gun. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He smelled woodsmoke and passed a stack of old lobster traps, blown over and the staves broken in, then a heap of firewood guarded pitifully by some old barrels, also broken. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A few ran to the nearest water cannon and swung the barrel toward Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Come fall they’d shoot ducks and geese and salt ’em down and sell ’em by the barrel to restaurants in Boston. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Another, larger laboratory with a second door leading out and, in the middle, a glass tank shaped like a barrel, filled with green liquid. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Seeing me, the older girl lowered the barrel of her gun and croaked out, “Do you have any water?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The clap of his hand against the barrel echoed in the air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “I know. As soon as the storm ends, I’ll search for some food. You need fish. There’s plenty of it, barrels. I just need to steal some.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z All that remained was to install the small barrel stove. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Lock, stock, and barrel, they’ve got their own three ways to live with our history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “In that case, you have us over a barrel—” said Colonel Kom without rancor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On Sunday evening, April 7,1765, a swarm of Rhode Island men, their faces blackened, boarded the Polly and stripped the ship of its cargo: barrel after barrel of molasses from the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When Rob appeared again, he had a long black object tucked under one arm, and he was holding another by its barrel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Then the crowd goes whooooop! as the other runners gallop past me, burning whatever gas they had left, barreling toward the finish line. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He lifted his cheek, in which could be discerned the imprint of a gun barrel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Elinor jabbed the barrel of the gun into his ribs so hard that he stumbled back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I was intimately familiar with what it felt like to have a barrel of a gun dig into my skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A red lantern hung on a hook just inside the door, and a greasy black candle flickered on an overturned barrel serving as a table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He leaped off the barrel and ran through the crowd, checking every child he saw. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Well, as I said, you’ve got me over a bit of a barrel. How much do you want for him?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He walked to the back of his car, opened the trunk, and calmly pulled out a lawn chair, a towel, and a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun with both barrels taped together. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s where I would take the beetroots, turnips, dried mushrooms, and barrels of soured cabbage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There was something tall and barrel shaped in the middle of it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z This may seem a backward way of going about measuring barrels, but it was a brilliant idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I slowly push myself up from the chair, coming to my feet, pushing my skin harder into the cold barrel. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Here Cora stalked a section of a frigate’s deck, around the mast, various small barrels, and coils of rope. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Asha climbed on a barrel so all of them could see her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I caught the glint of a rifle barrel. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And it is in that moment, with the prayers coming from George’s lips and the care coming from Dr. Martin’s hands, that Axel sees the unmistakable rise and fall of Ray’s barrel of a chest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Pomp put his lips against the barrel of his musket. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And unless folks didn’t want his hands on their foodstuff, he’d soon be weighing up sugar and flour and drawing molasses out of the barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Stocks on the ground, barrels against the wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In preparation for the fair, he ordered two hundred barrels of whiskey, to be used by his office in the entertainment of dignitaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We have caught it in buckets and barrels to drink, and the river is no longer so salty. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We barreled straight for the front steps of the library. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They floated in barrels of brine in grocery stores. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The chandlery was crammed with everything for ships—everything from barrels of salt beef to cables and marline-spikes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Beaver rolled the barrel over to the puddle, where the robot and the fish were waiting. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I began drifting from store to store, hanging around outside where things like apples were displayed in boxes and barrels and baskets, and I would watch my chance and steal me a treat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls shifted and Leo saw her barrelling towards them in her chariot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Soon after taking command of the Continental Army in July 1775, for example, he learned that his soldiers had only 36 barrels of gunpowder—about nine shots for each man. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up from where he lay wrapped protectively around the little girl and saw Trina barreling her way toward him, pushing others aside, her eyes afire and focused on Deedee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Killing, ice-pick-wielding Hagar, who, shortly after a Christmas thank-you note, found herself each month searching the barrels and cupboards and basement shelves for some comfortably portable weapon with which to murder her true love. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course,” said my dad, speaking through his barrel chest and mustache. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Seated on a barrel is the man who must be the agent, Skri. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He used the butt of his rifle to knock out the remaining pieces of glass, then pointed the barrel inside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I had heard it said that, on a bet, he had carried a barrel of molasses on his back from the general store down past the saloon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there was a barrel under his chin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z All they did not eat fresh was salted down in barrels for the winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, Nielsen confirmed, about forty large barrels were being filled with heavy water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Miles stepped out the front door right before Charlie came barreling out of the kitchen, aiming for me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I look back on it and what comes to me are people going over Niagara Falls in barrels. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A Dauntless man pushes a gun barrel into the back of my neck. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sam went upstairs and returned with clothes and a small barrel of water. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The “slavers” then loaded their ships with barrels of sugar and sailed back to Europe to begin the cruel process all over again. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In 1987, the amount of oil produced in North America had actually been the same as the amount of oil produced in the Middle East, about 12.5 million barrels a day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He attached a small square of cloth to the end of a metal stick and began jabbing it down the barrel and through the chambers—eight times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z All along the dock, there were vast pens of barrels covered with seaweed and hundreds of bales of cotton waiting for the mills. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Then we were out of the tunnel, the night air whistling through our hair as the boat barreled straight toward the exit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A gun barrel pressed to my spine urges me forward, through the front doors of Abnegation headquarters, a plain gray building, two stories high. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He had a new barrel of rice and jars of pasta. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Then I saw the man who had been doing all the talking lean down from the horse and hit Father with something—the barrel of his pistol I guessed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Vin barrels forward, no consequences in mind, bumping the boy’s shoulder with his own. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The logs popped, spitting ashes out of the barrel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “And we would sit on that plastic-covered couch and watch the show about the kid who lived inside a barrel.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The gunstock slammed back against my shoulder, and such a long streak of fire spouted from the gun barrel that it blinded me for a second; I couldn’t see a thing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking this when behind us crept a rumbling against concrete, like a barrel rolling, the rolling broken by the cracks in the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they found two wooden barrels to lie on-and propped them against the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Kaz stepped back, brushing the front of his shirt where the gun barrel had rested. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A child’s boot and stocking lay in the gutter, next to an overturned rain barrel. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa kept pouring in more water and washing the gun barrel with the cloth on the ramrod until the water ran out clear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But, still hoping that such a barrel of a man must have some food, I stayed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z After barreling down the highway, he made a screeching U-turn, with us kids feeling like the car was going to tumble over on its side, but the squad car made one, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They rounded the first turn and barreled into the backstretch locked together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were twenty or more of them with teams and loads of logs, with saws and axes, and a barrel of cider to give their work a spark of holiday spirit. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrenched the bat out of the thing’s grip, planted a foot behind her, and swung hard as it barreled toward her again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The plan for the uranium bomb was to fire one lump of uranium at another inside a gun barrel. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, on the witness stand, he held his hard-billed captain’s hat between his fingers, crossed his arms over his barrel chest, and pointed his cleft chin at Nels Gudmundsson, who wavered unsteadily before him, blinking. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Of course, that’s the ticket! A hornets’ nest in a barrel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Jolted from their sugar-cane sacking, barrels poking out, the ingredients of the picnic have spilled out across the floor of the trunk. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In one of Kepler’s lesser-known works, Volume-Measurement of Barrels, he does this in three dimensions, slicing barrels into planes and summing the planes together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was cluttered with a random assortment of boxes and barrels and bags: things he had taken from travelers, probably. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I caught the words “a barrel falling over in the warehouse” and “someone fiddling with the door.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He raised his weapon again, and in response, she pulled out her own: a handgun with a stubby muzzle wide enough to fit a golf ball in the barrel. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I’m standing on a track, watching the train barrel toward me, and I tense up and wait for the impact, the moment she asks what happened. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z But, locked in that dark, horrible world, Celaena only saw the ancient queen barrel into Cain, knocking him down, before the dead charged. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then I’d swoop the barrel up over the bear, squeeze the trigger... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She looked up and looked at him straight down the barrel of the gun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His chest was a great barrel chest, his thighs mighty barrel thighs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There was even a sly old woman with a barrel full of threave eggs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Fish in a barrel, I think, as blossoms of red stain their white uniforms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In one section of the city, a gang piled mattresses, barrels, and boxes on the trolley car tracks and set them afire. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Inej noted the glint of knives tucked into their belts, lead pipes, weighted chains, axe handles studded with rusty nails, and here and there, the oily gleam of a gun barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I’m housebroken. I play the harmonica. I’m a barrel of laughs. Come into the back so we can talk business.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After he reached the chair and sank into it, he pointed to the barrel by the doorway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I tried to barrel through folks who were standing in the doorway to the Serenity Suite—“Excuse me! Pardon me!”—but there were too many people trying to get into, or out of, the room. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The barrels would travel under heavy guard, and German planes would fly overhead to watch the land on either side of the tracks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Raphael’s face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z As I filled the barrel I snuck glances at the man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her breath heaves now, as if she's having some sort of fit, but she barrels on, determined to get out whatever it is she wishes to say. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Buyers flocked around the barrels and stalls to haggle over winkles, rJanM, and river pike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The first line of ogres burst out of the woods and barreled toward the airfield—five hundred yards away, four hundred yards... The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Frankie went back to the alley and sat behind the barrel and thought. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z How strange it must have been to catch a hint of that yeshivish cadence while staring down the end of a gaping barrel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She set up her tent beside the barrel, banked the snow around the bottom to seal out the wind, and spread her ground cloth under it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end I lowered the gun barrel and they moved on out of sight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But the Fashion Minister barrels in, followed by his team of dandies and a wardrobe closet with massive carriagelike wheels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They tied up, and the men and boys in them handed out barrels of fish. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All the barrels have to do is raise the boat clear of the bottom, then I can pull the bow onto shore. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A barrel bristled with canes, some with ivory handles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Then I barreled forward and answered her unspoken question by telling her that at least some, and maybe all, of the workers at the sanctuary were dead. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Dried brown weeds wilted in the windows of the house nearest him, and barrels of stagnant water and discarded crates filled the alley. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Sefia cursed again and crept forward, through the clusters of barrels and old nets and other miscellaneous cargo waiting to be loaded. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “She went to the library early,” said Andrew Peckleman, who was rolling a rubber barrel between tables to collect people’s breakfast trash. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z We spent the night changing places with one another on the two barrels left in the barrack. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z A seaman in a blue coat bent to check a row of barrels, and as he straightened up, even before he turned or before she consciously recognized him, Kit began to run. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The barrel looked as big as a cannon! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She’d brought in a mess of fish and descaled them, rinsing them with freshwater and placing them in a barrel for smoking. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z All we had was crackers out of the barrel and rat cheese off the wheel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Even before they hung up, he had turned his truck around and was barreling to the client’s house as fast as was legal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The demon had propped himself on a barrel and was leaning against the mast, his bad leg elevated on a coil of rope, that cursed walking stick resting on his lap. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We barreled into the hallways behind the gym, through the locker rooms, and into the connected natatorium. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I only have time to look up once before he barrels into me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But then, a soft scraping noise confirmed my suspicion, and Digger slowly stood up from where he’d crouched behind a grain barrel in the corner. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z A few hours later, German soldiers lashed flat train cars carrying forty barrels of heavy water to the deck of the Hydro. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As he barreled up the road laughing, Uncle Walter screamed at him, “Henry, slow down, dammit!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He just stood there, and Winn-Dixie came barreling right toward him like he was a bowling ball and the preacher was the only pin left standing, and wham, they both fell to the ground. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Reaching out with one hand, he put his fingers around the cold metal barrel. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I use gobs of soft soap out of a barrel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I make my way to a less crowded area, keeping an eye on the entrance to the gym, and those water barrels. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I darted down an alley, turned blindly toward the right, and ran smack into the barrel chest of a giant. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The young maid always looks at the barrel Dede points to as if it were an obscure object whose use is beyond her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cap it off and Jinx’ll hook up that copper tubing. When the liquid separates from the mash, it goes through the tubing and ends up in this barrel.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Spencer slammed the lid on the water barrel and leaped on top of it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He idly watched porters rolling barrels of molasses out of its hold. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Their train plows over the game board as they barrel inside. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly, there was a little stirring, a whimper, a little pink mouth opened in a yawn; so pink and moist was that mouth it seemed impossible in a coal barrel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z On Tuesday of Nat’s last week at the chandlery Ben Meeker drifted in and leaned against a barrel. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Several nearby houses and shops were staved in like rotten barrels, most of them burning fitfully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They dropped their garbage into the metal barrel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He goes to his right, rifle up; he expects the flash of gun barrels, the jaws of a demon swinging open. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I bent down to look in one of the concrete barrels on its side, and inside were Mitt and two other boys, the three of them crouched like commandos around the micro-recorder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To help the wine merchants out, Kepler chopped up the barrels—in his mind—into an infinite number of infinitely tiny pieces, and then added them back together again to yield their volumes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Butler ignored her, jamming the barrel beneath the troll’s jaw. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The black spot at the end of the barrel grows around me, and I can hear my heart but nothing else. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z At the same time the wellhead price of U.S. oil dropped to $9.25 a barrel. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking down below, he aimed next at the big barrel down there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Still, I have no choice but to barrel on. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Chimes gong loudly in the house, and within seconds she can see Jack’s mom, Terry, barreling toward her with a worried expression. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z To underscore his point, he sent a gigantic barrel of ice-packed champagne to the press box, complete with a card. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll put shucked corn down in the barrel without any water,” I explained as we went out to bury the dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Liam jumped at the ten gun barrels that swung our way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Tornait flew to the top of the barrel, screaming his alarm cry and beating his wings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Wes could even react, a half dozen plainclothes officers were on top of him, the barrels of their guns trained on his head and the lights from their flashlights blinding him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then the beavers did the right thing, and together they carved out a wooden barrel for the fish. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z One morning, he emptied both barrels of his shotgun at his tormenters, killing one, maiming another permanently, and wounding a third.... Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I trailed along behind her as she barreled straight to the patient’s house, on a mission. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Scuffles echo from behind me like an animal scurrying between the pods and stasis barrels. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m barreling toward the cookhouse when I hear Uncle Al shouting behind me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She says it was a sad day Prohibition ended because Dad gets the drink going around to saloons offering to sweep out the bars and lift barrels for a whiskey or a beer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Bucket of bait? If your old man is back fishing, he’s going to want it by the barrel.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z On the shiny barrel, the letters USA had been clearly etched. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We were forbidden to go out at night, so instead of the camp latrines we had to use a barrel in the barrack if we had to go to the bathroom. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She barreled down the beach in the direction of the skull-shaped rock and its long tongue of a jetty. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z His heart rattled against his ribs as he ripped open the door to the old closet and barreled up its narrow steps, on edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Olakunde no longer bailed, for fear of the element roiling all around him; he gripped the gunwales and sat inclined as if the dinghy barreled down a slope. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z After the initial bout of bargaining, a dozen men began unloading bolts of cloth, barrels of molasses, and burlap sacks of coffee. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Turning out the lights of his car, Sammy grabbed the shotgun, loaded two shells in the barrels, and motioned for Ben to follow him quietly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Crab pulled back on the hammer and handed the gun, barrel facing the trees in front of them, very carefully to Ernie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The front door was propped open with a barrel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The mortar was going to roll right down that long barrel and explode in her lap. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At the front window stood something that looked like a machine gun with a cluster of barrels. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Kaz stepped into the barrel of the gun so that it was pressed directly against his chest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This mosquito is almost entirely dependent on humans for its breeding areas—the still water found in water barrels, cisterns, canals, ponds, sewers, gutters, and outhouses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z "I think we should also maybe practice stop, drop, and roll with Mrs. S," Maddy barreled on, rolling her hands in the air. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z One writer who signed his name “A Hint” said the cause of the fever was the stinking barrels of rotting garbage routinely found in backyards and basements. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He turned and made himself suddenly busy with the taps of his beer barrels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As for Hamza, there has been little change in his condition since the night of the barrel bomb. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The barrel fairly flew up under the badger’s strong paws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Concealed partly by the raised barrels and their concrete emplacements, partly by my tilted umbrella, I kept hidden, but still managed a good look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The docks had been packed with sailors from all over the world, lugging crates and barrels and shouting out in languages he’d never heard before. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Even the barrels collecting the excrement from our toilets had to be removed and hauled away. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Polycarp Okuku yanked a lever on the barrel of his assault rifle, clack, ta chock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned over the first upright barrel and peered in, half expecting to look down a long well into the Devil's eye. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He waited until the man went back into the building and then took the book from the barrel. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She stuffed the napkin wads in the barrel next to the door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The man withdrew the barrel of his gun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Two men in leather aprons were unloading beer barrels down a ramp from the dray cart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And I bake every Saturday, and Shad brings fish on Friday, and they’s a pork barrel full of meal, and we float eggs in a crock of vinegar...” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Judith set Kit to tend the stirring while she readied the soap barrel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He points the red barrel of the submachine gun toward the bedroom door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the carpetbaggers commenced takin’ over, them Stokeses built a rock wall around the fam’ly graveyard and took off for Brazil, lock, stock, and barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mail shirts were tossed in barrels of sand and rolled across the lumpy surface of the Flowstone Yard to scour them clean. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It is one long room running almost the length of the ship, though one can hardly walk for the barrels and crates that are taking up most of the room. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Hoping I was truly alone, I made my way around boxes, barrels, piles of newspapers, and broken furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Could be a few dead ones lying behind the ale barrels and no one would even know!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z With his evil eye blazing down the rifle’s barrel he aimed at my forehead and I heard the shot ring out. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she knew what was happening, Scipio had grabbed her rifle and was pointing the barrel at her. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I figured I could gradually lower the barrel at the screen, aim, and pick off one of the Japanese troops. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mark did the same and followed him out into the clearing, certain that a Berg was going to come barreling in with dart guns over their heads any second. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She kicked snow over her sled and pack and crawled to the front of the barrel. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Josiah had told him about the spring while they waited for the water barrels to fill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At that moment Ida Spavento stepped forward, grabbed the barrel, and yanked the rifle out of Scipio's hands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z After a bit, lulled by the bobbing of the raft and by the soft, pleasant sounds of the sea against the oil barrel floats, I went to sleep again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or,” said Reginald, “perhaps we can find another floating barrel. That was a jolly good ride.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When the tide comes in, the big steel barrels will float up and lift the boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I pressed on the cartridges just to be certain they were secure, making sure that the hole nearest to the barrel was loaded. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The little squirrel signaled to his parent, asking her what she wanted the big barrel for. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Petey held on to the barrel of his pistol and shook it at me like it was a hatchet, ready to cleave me clean in half. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It was the shadow creature barreling toward her with that uneven gait. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A man rolling a barrel from a truck yelled, “Hey there!” at the last second, and I pulled up short, sidestepped the gap, and went on my way. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z In the next barrel, coal bricks at the quarter mark, then dregs of coal bricks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I lag behind, watching this procession of hipsters barrel through the lobby. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I wheeled him up an hour later, used my pocketknife to cut holes in the bottom of the barrel for drainage, and built up a fine sweat shoveling in dirt. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He is just a twelve-year-old boy now, looking into the barrel of a rifle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The black man’s freedom from apartheid could be attained only through the barrel of a gun, amid rivers of blood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Their guns were probably rifles, he surmised, and they were probably held barrel up, between their knees. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they pushed the barrel all the way to die wall and back again, then stood it upright. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Henry was squatting elbow to elbow with a couple of oil hands at a new drilling site when a Diamond T company truck barreled into the clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The boy sat down, leaned back against the barrel, and began to read from the story called Cruelty. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Bast was there, barreling into the mercenary with one shoulder, striking him with such force that the man’s body shattered one of the heavy barstools before slamming into the mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There, in the corner, the barrels stacked up to the deck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As the coach barreled down the street, Frankie held his pocket watch to the radiance of the lantern on his side of the coach. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He swiveled the barrel, took aim at the lead ogre, and pressed the trigger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I have literally just dragged myself into the tangle of hushes at the base of the trees when there's Cato, barreling onto the plain, soon followed by his companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He and his ink laugh long and loud—then there’s silence...and then he begins pounding on the barrel of the cannon with an iron pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z As the transport rolled deeper into the city’s skyscraper core, I saw people clustered on every street corner and in every vacant lot, huddled around burning barrels and portable fuel-cell heaters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me,” Finn said, as he barreled through the throngs of people, thousands of people, more people than he’d ever seen at the fair, or anywhere in his life. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Yoyo takes it in her hand and looks straight into the barrel hole, shuddering. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Before I can exit, the fellow behind me gives me a none-too-gentle shove with the barrel of his gun, and I turn and give him my best side-eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He showed him the right way to ram the musket ball down the gun’s barrel. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z A Dauntless soldier with an arm in a sling approaches us, gun held ready, barrel fixed on Tobias. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Until midnight, when a car barreled up the hill and stopped in the gravel of the blue trail’s parking area. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Puffing out his chest a little, Lac leaned on the nearest barrel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Jess Squirrel, aided by Silent Sam, maneuvered the barrel up on to the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Beto swallowed, lifted the shotgun again, and stared down the barrel at Wash. Wash who had taught him to fish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I walk to the closest barrel next to an empty pod, its orange flashing button highlighting Fu, Jie Ru over and over. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead he followed the light, wending his way down the narrow aisles beneath barrel- vaulted ceilings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I’d hold the gun with both hands, sight down the barrel, and squeeze the trigger slowly and smoothly until, with a loud clap, the gun kicked and the bottle exploded. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Before I can make the move, they’re barreling by, peering in at me like I’m The Bearded Lady. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He pointed to a rusty half of an oil barrel that somebody must’ve been using for a barbecue. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Stuck his head in the water barrel,” said Hermione, putting the tankard away. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Wait,” I said as I barreled into the foyer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Starlight winks off the barrel of his pistol. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Later that day, passing along a street in a strange and lonely town, he saw a man dump a box of trash into a barrel. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of the gun barrel was pinched together with tongs and given a rough, sharp edge. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I cried and buried her in the back yard and drove a barrel staving into the ground at the head of her grave. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The straight route to the front door was in Grandma’s line of fire, and he didn’t have the presence of mind to realize she’d already discharged both barrels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff backed away, tripped, and went down, and when the butt of the shotgun hit the ground, the other barrel exploded, its white roar glazing the snow around them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A chair, table, and an open barrel standing near one of the doors were the only furnishings in the room aside from the cots. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lionel did as his mother told him, crying as the soldiers laughed at him, pressing the gun barrels farther and farther into his neck. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I syphon a quart of green goo out of a barrel in the hold and return to the lab. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She threw up the barrel of the rifle in frenzied hope and fear. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Oh, I knew approximately where they were, but the sextant had a narrow field of view, like looking down a rifle barrel, and I needed to know exactly which way to point it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In her right hand she held his .44 Colt, and the black hole in the barrel pointed at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Sulfuric acid," Freak says, raising up the gun and sighting along the barrel. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z People have been known to jump into a trestle barrel if a train comes at the wrong time and they get trapped. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a custodian barrels past us and flings open the Coach's door. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was then I noticed he was carrying a gun on a shoulder strap, the barrel pointed up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As for Frankie, he seemed even more energetic than normal, barreling from building to building as though nothing had happened today. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then Pa put a clean, greased rag on the ramrod, and while the gun barrel was still hot he greased it well on the inside. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z If he doesn’t turn around, if he refuses to talk to me, I’ll just barrel right into him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The trucks barreled down the long, winding road, their passengers silenced by the dust deviling up and by the heat. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Slick as a snake in a barrel of butter,” said Wednesday. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Pent up from trailing the field, Seabiscuit spun through the gap like a bullet rifling down a barrel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie took to his heels and fled around the corner and hid behind a barrel in the alley. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s three miles,” Frankie said, but after the next coach barreled past, he started walking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The howling wind ripped apart tents, knocked over trees, and sent barrels flying through the air. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She could lift barrels of produce, could shoulder heavy timbers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Three feet to the left and he would have emerged in a huge barrel of Italian red. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Let me see. David, you empty and scrub the drinking barrel. It’s getting brackish. When he’s done Nathan can fill it from the pump.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He bent over to pick it up, pointing the gun barrel down. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Ancient stone arches rose above them supported by pillars as thick as ten trees, irregular flagstones lay underfoot, and on all sides were ranged rack upon rack, tier upon tier, of bottles and barrels. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Squatting on the edge of the other flat-headed rock with only the night to cover him, Guitar smiled over the barrel of his rifle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My Austrian sniper’s rifle with its blued octagon barrel and the lovely dark walnut, cheek-fitted, schutzen stock, hung over the two beds. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In the towns he found that people threw newspapers and magazines into trash barrels, so he could always find something with which to practice his reading. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were beginning to think that the only way to overthrow apartheid was through the barrel of a gun. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, a barrel poked in from the outside. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Everyone associated with the show is barreling toward the big top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It took more than an hour, and when they’d finished they stood back, revealing what looked like an enormous military-green telescope, with its long barrel set firmly atop a short, broad tripod. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The last I see of him and the Dauntless traitors leading him is the gleam of the gun barrel and blood on the back of his earlobe from an injury I didn’t see before. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He waited for Sefia and Archer, fretfully drumming the barrel of his rifle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The gun barrel pushes me toward a door guarded by two Dauntless soldiers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He handed her the sawed-off length of his gun barrel, the one that ruined itself after he struck the ghost sister’s feet. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Scrambling and crawling and pushing, twisting away anytime someone tried to latch on to his limbs or clothes, he moved forward, barreling through the crowd of people. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The driver pulled over to the side of the road, where the bus station mob, barreling down the highway in some fifty cars and pickup trucks, caught up with it. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The closing of breweries, distilleries, and saloons led to the eliminations of tens of thousands of jobs, including those formerly held by barrel makers, waiters, and truck drivers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As if Luke had somehow missed him when he had barreled through moments ago. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I lean against a barrel and clutch my cup, aware of the curious eyes around us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The barrel of the pistol pointed at the squinting plastic statue of Jesus that was centered on the dashboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A man, his shoulder badly bloodied, clung to a barrel. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z "Then here's some advice," the same man continued, pointing a finger as black as the barrel of a gun at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I heard a rustling and turned to the house across the street to see two rusty gun barrels in a glassless window. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I hear German voices, and I can feel the end of a gun barrel press against my neck. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Mulch felt the cold steel of a gun barrel against his temple. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Gutters carry rain off the patched tin roof into two barrels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She thinks I’m a barrel full of crazy, but I keep going because sometimes my tongue goes on without my say-so. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z "I forgot, you're too skinny to push such a heavy barrel." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The barrels were on skis like a sleigh, to take to the planes.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the same instant, a dog rose from where he’d been curled up on the ground beside the barrel that held our cornmeal. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran down the dock, zigzagging around baskets and barrels and coils of ropes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Not until then did I look up and see the shiny blue rifle barrel, very thin, the upstairs window six inches open and his face behind it, partially hidden by the curtain. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The bar was decorated with glittering bottles, and Kote was standing on the now-vacant counter between the two heavy oak barrels when Bast came back into the room, black scabbard swinging loosely from one hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I barreled my way to the refrigerator, yanking the door open, searching for something even though I wasn’t thirsty and we’d be leaving for Doug’s for dinner. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The derringer is less than six inches long and made of brass, with a two-inch barrel. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She held Tuck’s long-forgotten shotgun by the barrel, like a club. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean ... a drink for you and your brothers. A fine barrel of fallow white? To show my thanks. I let him stay because his stories were interesting, at first.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Seconds later, they saw Jessie and Laney barreling down the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Then, lifting it, holding it by the barrel; he swung it over his head. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z She put up a hand to stop the boys barreling at her, to say stop. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z So Joe knocked in the head of a barrel of soda crackers and cut some cheese. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Dicey went over to the trash barrel to throw out the orange peels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah finally heard the commandant’s car, then saw it as it barreled toward them, down the long bare avenue between the barracks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Victor had managed to fish the pedigreed cat out of a barrel full of stinking sardines and stowed her in a scratch-safe box, he had discovered the two tortoises. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Leroy took the box, pulled the lid off and both him and me sucked in air like we got dunked in a barrel of cold water. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z With it up close to my face like this I could smell the gray metal of the barrel and the gun oil Mr. Amos used on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z By way of answer the stranger pushed the barrel of a shotgun through the open window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Tears streamed down his face and he cradled the barrel of the shotgun in his arms as though it were the woman he had been begging for, searching for, all his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I could just see the dark barrel poking out from the white silk of the flag. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Two barrels of cane syrup were tied down in the wagon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes slowly wandered around the room, moving lazily past the broken tables, the black stone fireplace, the huge oak barrels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was packed into fruit barrels and shipped to the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I get someone to teach me to make barrels or rope or meat pies. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I rode with the firemen as the engine barreled down the street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, the two of them had collected three more barrel staves and the back of the chair. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He saw cod and sailfish and sardines, barrels of mussels and clams. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Father” Bill Daly, a peg-legged trainer described by one writer as “villainous,” reportedly carried a barrel stave with him at all times so he could beat his jockeys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The crow’s nest is now on the inside exactly what it appears to be on the outside: a barrel, three feet wide, just large enough for a lookout to stand and scan the horizon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z On the contrary, he was a mountain of flesh, a great barrel of a fellow, whose arms and legs were as thick as tree limbs, and with a tublike belly before all. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then the cars would continue by rail to the coast, where the barrels would be transferred to a ship and taken across the North Sea to Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been rolling a barrel of sand across the uneven stone, and was red-faced from exertion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was about to give her both barrels, but she walked away, heading down the hall toward our next class. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Unless something comes barreling out of that dark tunnel.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Director spins around, barreling through his remaining security as he draws a handgun from his waistband. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Small barrels held lanterns, and more hung from the beams. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The heavily loaded wagons come barreling down the runs and don’t stop until they’re a dozen feet away. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The reporter, eager to get a reaction, barrels on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She blinked, and her awareness came barreling back into her body. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They carry loads of clapboard and sassafras root, and barrels of shiny rocks that we hope contain gold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It was the barrel of a gun pointed at Monaco. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once inside, he would take a fist-sized chunk of chalk from his pouch and mark each cask and sack j and barrel as he counted them while Marsh compared the new ; count to the old. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mosquitoes were everywhere, though their high-pitched whirring was particularly loud near rain barrels, gutters, and open sewers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He spun on his heel and almost barreled into Tad, who stumbled back, tripped over an iron bar, and slammed into an open locker with a crash. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The water came from a gray metal water pistol with a long skinny barrel which I stuck into a small opening in one end of the bag. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of fifth period, I’m still so busy thinking about it that I don’t even notice Austin barreling through the doorway into the computer lab right as I’m trying to get out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Looking left and right, he could see into the barrels of their machine guns. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Trucks with flat beds loaded with empty potato barrels moved on the roads, and the mechanical potato digger turned up long windrows of pale-skinned tubers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A gasket blows five thousand feet underwater beneath an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, sending millions of barrels of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I was on my way to get the other Zetas. I ran into Nyla. She asked if I’d seen you near the stasis gel barrels in the hold.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A group of young boys were running up the steep street, then lying down and letting themselves roll like barrels. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I clicked the gun barrel back into place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Ahead of me, the Snake’s shadow joins with Zak’s, and they barrel ahead, unaware of how close I am. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She comes close again and I barrel ahead, because apparently that’s who I am with this girl. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, are you here to clean another toilet? Or do you plan on going dumpster diving again? I saw you with your head buried in the trash barrel. I totally Instagrammed your butt.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The noise of rumbling carts laden with creaking cages and barrels of goods, the smells of raw fish and flesh, and the cries of sailors and merchants overwhelmed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The rest of it and the bullet and the paper were rammed down the barrel. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember riding on the front of his motorcycle barreling down the dirt road to Ardestan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z So when he poured the whiskey back into the barrel and said, “It’s ready for Velma T.’s elixir,” everyone understood that was to be the code of conduct. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With his attention focused on the minivan barreling toward them, Rob didn’t have time to jerk the car out of the tree’s path. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I crept to the flap, heard Rose cursing outside, and unzipped it enough to get a one-eyed peek and to push the barrel of the gun out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then I imagined the plump body, roasting in our barrel, like a chicken. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He thundered toward the docks, leaping over cars, barreling through intersections. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On the cry of “Aim!” a line of horizontal musket barrels points directly at the blue wall. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Sacks and barrels were heaped by the potbelly stove, near a cot with a threadbare blue blanket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With his stubby legs and broad waist supporting a big barrel chest, Mafoday appeared more like a fixture in goal than a potentially mobile obstacle. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z As if given a cue, the heavy sky suddenly empties barrels of rain over the club. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I knew Hafsa missed me and cared about me, but she got to barrel forward, her life uninterrupted, while my future had fallen completely off its tracks. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then Brian yelled, “Charge!” and we came barreling down the hill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though my eyes waren’t all the way use to the darkness, I could still see the hole in the barrel of the mystery pistol that Mrs. Chloe was aiming right twixt my eyes! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Jeanne’s mother’s gaze lingered on her daughter another moment, like an innkeeper waiting for the last drop of ale from the barrel tap. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I saw the white man frowning, my father grinning at me, and those barrels of candy to choose from. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Honey, a story that good can’t be kept under a barrel.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I follow the barrel on its upward arc. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He moved boulders around his yard on weekends, ate twelve ears of corn in one sitting, and kept barrels full of oysters in his garage so he could shuck and eat them anytime he wanted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “And it sure is making me quake with fear,” he says, moving the rifle so I’m looking right down the barrel. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The group of native men who have come with Captain Smith stand quietly watching as the gentlemen roll barrels of provisions up the riverbank. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Sweeney fought without style, without science, with nothing but enthusiasm for the fight itself: huge, barreling roundhouse blows that missed as often as they connected. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z After the door had closed Kate opened the right-hand drawer of her desk and took out a revolver with a short barrel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She saw blood on Mo’s arm, and she almost got hit on the head with the barrel of Basta’s shotgun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My fingers brush the gun barrel, and I shudder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A barrel of foul-smelling liquid stood by the door. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here comes our boat. We can ride that barrel down to the motel. Like you guys did with that raft in the raging river episode.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The musket ball streaked out of the barrel like a comet, trailing flames and smoke. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Pooky stood by the blockhouse, brushing his nasty old coveralls off, holding his .22 by the barrel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A massive engine explodes around the bend and barrels past, so huge and so close I’m hit by a wall of wind. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The barrel of another’s rifle dug into her forehead. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She screamed as he threw her at the domovoi, barreling him backwards as they both tumbled across the floor and hit the well. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I imagined how it would feel to creep up to his bed while he was sleeping and put the shotgun barrel right in his nose. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” he said as they practically barreled into him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z One foot almost touched down onto the roof, but Tally was pulled up again, still barreling forward with the momentum of her leap off the hill. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We are the fish, the street the barrel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And I had looked down the barrel of one like it for his sake. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z You joined in, and the two of us barreled into him together. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Spinning and stormy and gaining strength as she barrels forth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z There were two barrels for five hundred people, so we learned to go to the latrines during the day as much as we could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She had an idea that the barrel, filled with something or other, could be dropped down upon the ram-carriers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Finally, he pulled a stool behind the bar and began to polish the vast array of bottles nestled between the two huge barrels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He must have been ten feet from her, with that long rifle barrel pointing directly at her face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His joints finally loose and he tries to point the rifle at me, barrel shaking. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I was taking the trash out to the trash barrels when I saw a demon boy lounging against the wall of our alley. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could see was the gun’s huge barrel, black and gleaming, as it moved toward his face. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z "Ahhh," the short one says, stretching the word out, his mouth round like the barrel of the revolver he has emptied and is passing around so the children can all hold it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He was alone at sea for two days, with sharks below and storms above, clinging to the remnants of the barrel, when he finally washed ashore near Lattakia, fifty miles north of Arwad Island. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Nearly six feet tall, with thick arms and a barrel chest, he stands erect, his shoulders unbowed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare into the black pinprick that is his gun barrel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Dauntless soldiers with blue armbands stand on the sidewalk outside, carrying guns I’ve never seen before, guns with narrow, blue beams of light streaming from above their barrels. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He caught them and hooked the strainer onto the side of the barrel where they dripped until he was ready for them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Because late that same night he borrowed a pistol, gripped it by the barrel, and used it like a hammer to break his own nose. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet seemed to move of their own accord, pivoting him left as Shomari barreled forward and missed him like a charging bull. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They’ll find themselves staring down the barrel of a little surprise. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The barrel is wet, I take it in my hands and rub off the moisture with my fingers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was small he brought me toys, barrel hoops and blocks and a carved wooden lion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It went right down into the barrel of the well, sinking and sinking from him so that he could not get it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully I slid my hand down the barrel until I got to the stock, gripped it, and gave it a little pull. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z About four and a half feet above his head sat a barrel, filled completely or partially with cold water, depending on the offense and the mood of the keeper. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped the can into a tall trash barrel. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They brought the barrel and poured out a generous tot for the Questing Beast “Poor creature,” said King Pellinore indignantly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I jammed the ramrod down the barrel and released a shower of white saliva and mush, spraying my cousin square in the face. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The dogs barreled out, knocking him over and scratching him with their toenails. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a face before me, a lean and shriveled face like an apple too long in the barrel, a lonely face and sick with loneliness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Climbing down from the loft, we all went and looked at the three big stinking rats, floating in the barrel amongst the ears of corn that had been the bait. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A round black eye and the moonlight on a silver barrel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Fairy hardware was most definitely superior to his own, and who knew how many barrels were aimed at the other side of that door right now. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He was still wearing the same wrinkled black suit, which now looked like something from a trash barrel; he couldn’t even find time to buy a new one, despite repeated requests from Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Everybody knows that when a barn rat looks down into a barrel that seems half full of shucked corn, he never suspicions that it’s really half full of water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z At the general store we could trade a barrel for just about anything; nails, shotgun shells, and, if times was good, store-bought cloth and such things. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I dip the rag in the polish with my rubbery arms, and begin to slather it on the barrel of the great gun, but the master-at-arms laughs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Quickly, he pressed his eye back against the sight but I could tell by the way he jerked the barrel to the left and right that the deer had vanished. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ernie had asked as soon as they reached Tess’s front porch, where she stood as if waiting for the brothers from New York—the city boys—to come barreling down the hill. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Lashed to its sides were two barrels, a few lobster pots, and an old, battered trunk complaining at being dragged out onto the water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I know I stared into the deep black hole in that glinting barrel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He creates a new navigational chart based on the movements of flies swarming around the barrel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Colonists grilled the birds, stewed them with salt pork, and baked them into pies; they plucked their feathers to stuff mattresses, pickled them in barrels as a winter treat, and fed them to livestock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Up he shot again like a bullet in the barrel of a gun. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z A half dozen men sat around the fireplace at one end of the store or leaned against the counters and cracker barrels. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Early on Wednesday morning, I built a fire in the metal trash barrel in the backyard, fueled by my school papers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was deep and hollow, like someone whispering from inside the barrel of a cannon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “We’ll get this whole place as tight as a barrel, Mama. I already met a guy who told me where they pile all the scrap lumber.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother barreled up the stairs a couple minutes later. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Others would use polygraphs, explosives, pistol barrels, muscle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I grab it and press the barrel to the top of his head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Any number of times he said “Ftt” to me and I ignored him, and barreled on across the upraised thumb of New Hampshire. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “An hour of freedom is worth a barrel of slops.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z When I explain about the barrel rig, he shakes his head. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Dad—” I’d start, but he would shut me down and barrel on. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I grabbed a handful of snow from outside the door and carefully mixed in ashes from the barrel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I huddled near Jonas, staring down the barrel of his gun. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Now that we were alone, she was free to deliver her scorn with both barrels. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I sat on a large barrel of blue plastic, watching them, wondering when we could go home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She and her daughters watched while my trunk and a barrel of Tonic were loaded on top of the coach. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The twins barrel out the back door just then in their play clothes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He barreled through them, vaulting toward the hatch above, branches smacking him in the face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Americans drove the trucks and used a windlass and a kind of davit to pull the filled barrels aboard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened his mouth to interrupt, but Bartholomew was already barreling past peasants. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He took a pistol off the wall and looked in the barrel. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “You’d need to drink a barrel of that water over there after you ate one of these dry crackers.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I barrel into the smell of pipe tobacco and the scratch of his tweed suit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The rest of the hold was stocked with crates, barrels, burlap sacks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I think of all those people in Savannah the moment Hurricane Noah made that unexpected turn and barreled straight toward them, instead of heading back out to sea like it was supposed to. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I pressed against the side, like I’d seen people do on television, and the barrel dropped open. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z But before any of us could say or do a thing, Kamal’s father shoved the barrel in his own mouth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Magdalys did as she was told, holding the edge of the packet against the mouth of the barrel so she wouldn’t spill any while the brachy crashed along through the streets. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The second shot belched out the barrel with a ball of sparks and a flame that lit up the front of the wagon. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The main room is the taproom, with a huge stone fireplace, and barrels full of beer and whiskey and cider. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were deaf as posts and too scared to move, even before they realized they were looking down both barrels of the gun they’d come to steal. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Flies buzzed in through the door, landing on the open watermelons and the sweet corn, climbing up the sweating pickle barrel. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Ray comes barreling out, and Aunt Nancy waves from the porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Pilate put a barrel lid on the table. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Who had ever thought the rice barrel could become an engineer? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I make out a cluster of long gun barrels and trigger guards. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A small barrel of wine which had been thoughtfully provided by Sir Ector was broached, and a good drink was had by all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel ot beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer’s hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She came and saw me and helped me stir the hops in my old oak barrel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I went barreling on as if it was my poem and I was an expert. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “You see,” Josiah had said, with the sound of the water trickling out of the hose into the empty wooden barrel, “there are some things worth more than money.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The carving on the steel had the pearly gleam of a Damascus blade, while the stock flowed into lock and lock into barrels as though they had grown that way from a magic planted seed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a really stupid and pointless defense, like when a turtle tucks into its shell because a locomotive is barreling down on it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran to another kid whose arm was elbow deep in a barrel of fruity Tootsie Rolls—a candy neither Fred nor I bothered with. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Lac leaned against a barrel, clutching his gun in both hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z By the third day after the fire, the Lockton house was packed tighter than a barrel of salt cod and smelled worse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Forgetting that the car’s occupants were armed, and brandishing his own gun by the barrel, Joe galloped toward the vehicle, planning to beat them all to a bloody pulp with the stock of his weapon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed the gap between himself and Koffi, flung his arms out, and barreled into her so that he was draped over her as they both toppled to the ground. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The resulting volume of garbage overwhelmed its disposal system, which consisted of janitors bumping large barrels of fetid garbage down the same three flights of stairs used by customers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When he hit them with the ramrod, the ramrod bounced up in the gun barrel, and Pa caught it and thrust it down again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ambulance trains loaded with wounded German soldiers barreled toward the ports. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The barreling ocean waves were a silvery blue. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I lifted my gun and laid the barrel across the top of the rock fence. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It was barreling straight toward them at a rate of three miles an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Wanting to enjoy every moment, I stared at the hard candies in the different wooden barrels. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was still holding up his hands even though the barrel of the gun was pointing down at his feet. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I expected him to come barreling across the room and whock Robbie with a pool cue for getting fresh with his daughter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Once when the Store was full of lunchtime customers, he dipped the strainer, which we also used to sift weevils from meal and flour, into the barrel and fished for two fat pickles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he went over some boring stuff about guns, like which slugs to use in your shotgun and to always keep both barrels loaded. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z If it were simply a mistake in aim no one would say anything, but the truth is that the barrels are worn out. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to, more or less, crawl into the barrel, headfirst. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The barking dog he’d heard before got louder, and suddenly a white blur came barrelling through the snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When they’re done with our room, they nudge us with the barrels of their guns into the living room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The constable ran his fingers down the gleaming barrel of the shotgun. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Koffi had opened her mouth to call his name when one of the gorillas barreled toward her and forced her to roll out of its path. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We paused at a corner while a soldier drove a cart filled with barrels down the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z People would have to haul water in barrels to their farms just for drinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the granaries were oats and wheat and barley, and barrels of coarse ground flour. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Could you take the price of the barrel then, sirs? If not the barrel itself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inside the gun barrel, they would fire one piece of uranium at the other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bright lights barrel down the street through the smoke. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Most of the cars were taking it easy in the right lane, but the big rigs kept barreling by, shooting up walls of slush that hit the windshield so hard we jumped every time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z And this dactyl—this strange and beautiful creature with its wrinkled, gray-brown hide, barrel chest, and slender neck—she wanted to hug it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Johnson ran the swab through the barrel of his piece. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I am alone in the barrel of the gun and no one can save me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Roz filled the barrel with water and a grumpy fish, and then they were off. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z His feet flew off the pedals as he barreled straight for Gust Trishalts blacksmith shop. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Someone barreling through the throngs bumped her hard to the right, which caused someone else to yell at her to watch where she was going. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z All the heavy water—far more than had ever been shipped before—was being loaded into barrels. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This one hangs out in the same crowd with hook, line, and sinker and lock, stock, and barrel. can of worms. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And he saw a blue flicker down below, and strained to bring the barrel over to it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then one day they stopped. Today more than ten thousand wells remain scattered across the reservation, but they are generally what oilmen call “stripper” wells, each one generating less than fifteen barrels a day. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My boss, a white woman, directed me in unpacking barrels of dishes, setting up new tables, painting, and so on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t stand there like a ninny. Fetch that barrel of wine along at once.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He flew down from the barrel and ran into the tent. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She swerved that way and saw a gap between the coal-spirit barrels and the end of a corrugated iron shed, and darted for it like a bullet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He looked up, into the face of a train barreling into the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z V snuck her way through the side entrance, past a greasy- haired young gentleman pushing an enormous barrel of flour. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It also made sense to locate the giant storage tank in the North End, near the freight yards and wharves where the molasses could be poured into barrels and shipped to various distilleries. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He did not lower the gun barrel even one millimeter. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He watched them take turns running oiled swabs through the barrel. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I focused my vision to the end of the barrel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z As the remaining curlicues of steam intertwine with the snow, visibility extends just to the end of my barrel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Ben pulled a 12-gauge double barreled shotgun off the floorboards of the back seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He pats a barrel next to him and bids me to sit down. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Masaccio’s painting shows Christ on the cross in front of a chapel with a barrel vault—but of course the chapel does not exist; it is entirely a painted chapel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They could try barreling through the troops with the tank, but they would never make it to the ship. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the back room Brett and Bill were sitting on barrels surrounded by the dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A man with hair as slick as a pregreased cake pan pushed an enormous flour barrel on a wheeled platform to fill the smaller containers at each station. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z One night, racked by exhaustion and guilt, he picked up his .45 and put the barrel in his mouth. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But there was no answer as she barreled on down the river on her one-log raft. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Some of the adults were closer to the exit than we were, and rather than running around them, we tried to barrel straight through. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Sailors pull on ropes and pulleys, lifting barrels to swing from each ship’s yard arm so they can be loaded onboard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Edged closer to the barrel now and then. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Deydey’s gun required his concentrated care, and he liked tea at his elbow while he cleaned the workings and barrel. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z With a couple of barrels in the back, the wagon went slow enough that I could of run and caught it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, as dusk was settling over the north, Jon rolled the empty barrels back into the cage and signaled the winch men to lower him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The butt of the shotgun was still buried in Grandma’s shoulder, and she was squinting down the barrels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Kathy was resting and the kids were in the back as they barreled through New Mexico. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then they were in sagebrush again, barreling along with the windows rolled up against the adobe dust that enveloped their vehicle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, crumpling the paper in his fist, he wadded it around the lead ball, poking both into the barrel mouth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Hazel tried to collect her thoughts, stall for time, but it was difficult while staring down the smoking barrels of those flintlocks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One time, right before she burned the trash in a coal barrel in the yard, I found a page all crumpled up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Three big explosions almost immediately afterward showed that it had found the ammunition, and the gunners leapt away, letting the barrel swing down low. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mo bowed his head and stroked his hand over the barrel of the gun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Wait for the rifle barrel to touch his temple. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The hair on the back of his neck stood on end as something shimmery and scaled barreled past him with a snarl, sending waves of heat in its wake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z By the end of the first week, I was scrounging at the bottom of the barrel for deals to make. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It mixed with the burning gasoline from the flamethrowers and napalm bombs, the sharp tang of gunpowder, the overheated metal of machine gun barrels, so hot that they were melting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I mean, the birds are everywhere, and it’s like shootin’ fish in a barrel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “That man’s got you over a barrel,” he sighed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I lit all the hanging lamps while Granddaddy cleared a spot on the counter and gently placed the barrel on it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He reached high, higher, trying to stick the swinging rod into the barrel so as to set the ball snug proper. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z With his bowed legs, barrel chest, and prominent ears, he presented a comical appearance, but Jon knew better than to laugh at him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Fifty feet of rope, a ten-foot plank, and some big steel barrels, what sometimes they call drums. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Holding the barrel in his strong fingers like a chisel, he hit the other end with his mallet, tapping long slices of wood away from the inside of the log. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Rum is made from sugarcane and aged in barrels. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He should have been living with his mother and father in their cottage, rounding off barrels for the cooper or apprenticed to another of the town’s craftsmen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nancy sighed wearily and sat down at the table, absentmindedly sticking her pinkie in the gun barrel’s snout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He slapped the barrel into his other hand, said: “What’d you just say to me?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Everyone’s got to do their time in the bottom of the barrel,” the union rep had said to our class regarding the likelihood of our initial assignment to Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you dress like a thug, she would insist as she opened the trash barrel, of course you act like a thug. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I don’t know how it happened so fast, but one second I’m looking at the cap’n and starting to feel something for him and the next I’m staring down the barrel of his pistol. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z And then you had to throw these mistakes in a barrel, which counted against you because the owner could sell those only as scraps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa filled this cap full of the gunpowder and poured the powder down the barrel of the gun. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “How could I know those barrels were hot?” he was saying. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood looking at that tiny square of white as though gazing down into the barrel of a gun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He stepped forward and tucked the barrel of his shotgun under Wash’s chin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “On a raft or inside some rusty old barrel?” whined Duke. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Powell had hopped down into a sitting position on the robot again, and his suited hand slapped against the Gargantuan’s barrel chest. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The dog team was barreling up the creek and was drawn in by his commotion, and I barely got the sled stopped and tied off to a tree before they got to him. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The way the sexton figured it, James Grew had propped the gun barrel on the books to bring it in line with his temple. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The gang seemed ready to start killing, and White grabbed the barrel of the gun being held by one of his captors, who yelled at Boxcar, “Shoot him! He’s got my gun.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The barrel had to be carried on a specially made car consisting of a steel cradle straddling two extra-long flatcars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I fill her water station from a barrel in the center of the room, and a fine mist appears, raining down on her soft skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One big sailor got up on a barrel and yelled questions. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When she pulled the trigger, a bright blue flame flared from the barrel. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There were plenty of barrels, but trying to dump a barrel into a little silver bowl seemed tricky. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He saw a broken piece of concrete lying beside the barrel and picked it up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He forced Syl’s head out, then jammed the gun’s barrel in his ear. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I hurried away from the Barracks, dashed down Water Street, and hid behind a rain barrel at the corner of the joiner’s workshop. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As the barrel swiveled in their direction, they scattered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But she was not too sure what it would be best to fill the barrel with. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Hab was twelve, now, and he stopped school to help Father make barrels. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On his knees before the double doors is David, a gun barrel pressed to his temple, blood trailing down his chin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Rum won’t help. If he put more rum in barrels and less in...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He tapped the barrel and turned the wooden spigot, spilling a couple of inches of warm golden-brown liquid into a clean glass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The young woman barrels through the thick crowd. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Strange smells wafted in the air around them as the Witchlings peered around the brick building and saw Mr. Dimblewit pulling something from a barrel. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He could even pray out loud in church, and was apt at stealing pickles from the barrel that sat under the fruit counter and Uncle Willie’s nose. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He held the revolver by the barrel so that Ernie could grab the grip. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Not a blade of grass in the small front yard, but rather barrel and prickly pear cacti and clusters of stones. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z To the British, the Rhode Islanders who rolled the barrels off the ship so that they would not have to pay the sugar tax were smugglers, pure and simple. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were kids at the park, building snowmen, having snowball fights, barreling down Suicide Hill. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He licked his lips and stared down the barrel. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Arion shot toward the glacier like a runaway rocket, barreling straight across the slush like he wanted to play chicken with the mountain of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Right foot rain barrel, left foot window ledge, left hand iron drainpipe, and I swung myself onto the lip of the first story roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There he untied his packet, and leaving the loaves scattered on a shelf, broke the seal on the barrel of dried fish, extracted two and put them on an earthen plate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z At first she cackled softly and ran at the indistinct shadows of barrels and wheelbarrows, pretending they were monsters rearing out of the mist, but she was too accustomed to caution to dally for long. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Recalling the Rad Lab of that era, Alvarez exclaimed delightedly, “We ran it with a big barrel of greenbacks.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While the men searched for signs of the stowaways, the mate wandered among the stores, checking the insides of a crate, lifting the lid on a barrel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A barrel of pickles stood near the front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then I decided against it, lowering the barrel to his chest: always go for the sure target. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He stood the butt of the gun in a pan on the hearth and poured boiling water from the tea kettle into the gun barrel. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To the right of our house, a few yards away, stood three large empty oil barrels that served as garbage cans for the residents. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Sealing the barrel shut, I take a relieved breath. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The only eyes you could see were the round black ends of the rifle barrels and the blazing yellow eyes of the wolf daemons above the slaver dripping from their jaws. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “That girl is pure charisma,” Mom barrels on. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Rumors about the Yule Ball were flying everywhere, though Harry didn’t believe half of them — for instance, that Dumbledore had bought eight hundred barrels of mulled mead from Madam Rosmerta. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I pushed him as close to the barrel as I could. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned against the rain barrel and mourned my loss. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I knew my father wouldn’t drink any of the liquor, but if Grandpa wanted to take along a whole barrel, it was all right with me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When he’d finished, he washed his hands and face at the barrel near the back door, sat at the table, and waited for Mami to serve him supper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In his sleep a voice echoed down the long dark barrel of a cannon: You have run out of birthdays. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Then he fell to cleaning the barrel with the little rod. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I can feel the warmth of my AK-47S barrel on my back; I don’t remember when I last fired it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He fumed and threatened, but in the end he rounded up six men and sent them off grumbling to fetch the barrels down to the brewhouse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Smoke curled from the barrel of the captain’s pistol, slowly disbursing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “No, I mean, how do you hold it? Would you rest the barrel across your other fist like this?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After removing the core, we chewed up bits of maize pith and shoved them down the barrel, followed by paper spitballs to create a seal. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Rain fell in torrents, and thunder rumbled across the sky like empty barrels rolling toward the horizon. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “But it sure beats barrels of treasure that we don’t have.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It requires only a small amount of water to fill the tube, but because the height is great it exerts an enormous pressure—enough to burst the barrel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yer a mess!” said Hagrid gruffly, brushing soot off Harry so forcefully he nearly knocked him into a barrel of dragon dung outside an apothecary. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z In a fury, using all his strength, Powell clubbed Frederick Seward with the barrel of the broken revolver. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinx and Shady hauled the first barrel over to the high school. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I fumbled with the reflector and put my eye to the barrel, sure that something momentous was about to appear. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The boys dived under tables just as the double doors and the brick wall they were mounted to exploded inward, destroyed by the force of the giant, furry platypus beast barreling inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It said, quite clearly, that this wasn’t a case of a bad apple or two in the barrel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We set down our satchels, and Granddaddy unpacked the microscope and assembled the barrel and the lenses, each of which had a cunning nesting place in the velveteen-lined box. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z For a moment she was sure she saw Dr. Packard’s daughter Paulette standing behind the water barrel, but she couldn’t be sure. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He felt like a castaway clinging to a barrel in a stormy ocean. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He took a shotgun, put the barrel in his mouth, and pulled the trigger with his toe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The PSFs were closer now; they had to be, because when they started firing again, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a big, chesty man is barreling down the aisle toward me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He had lowered the rifle, but only so that its barrel pointed at my legs instead of my head. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z One second of teenage noise explosion before barreling through the double doors. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The labor of getting things down off of a shelf or out of a barrel was nothing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Basel held the front end, the metal barrel, and Muhammad held the back. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Bucky rammed into the police officers, barreled right smack between them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I watched the PSF let go of his arm, take her gun out of its holster, and, without a word—without even blinking—stick the barrel inside of her mouth and pull the trigger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At one point, she launches up in the air, over a small barrel and lands poised on her tiptoes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Fighting it out seemed likely, especially a few days later when Dad came home with more than a dozen military-surplus rifles, mostly SKSs, their thin silver bayonets folded neatly under their barrels. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He grabs my left arm with one hand and presses a gun barrel to my forehead with the other, smiling down at me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I woke, the barrel of a gun was stuck up underneath my chin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once you load a rifle,” he explained, “and have a shell in the chamber, you always keep the barrel pointed toward the ground.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She steadied herself, taking one last look at the photograph for courage, then—bumping only slightly against the flour barrel as she nudged past—V made her way inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Then he hugged them both to his massive barrel chest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z That afternoon, the watch commander sent him to the winch cage with four barrels of fresh-crushed stone, to scatter gravel over the icy footpaths atop the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Adding infinite things to each other seems to work out most of the time, so long as you are dealing with something in real life, like finding the volume of a barrel of wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When she swung open the door, they stepped out onto a little dock cluttered with broken barrels and empty crates. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z "Sir? Would you take on a passenger? Here, let me set these barrel staves under the wheels." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I see a statue of him mounted on a flying barrel. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Even in the heavy darkness, no moon yet, I could make out the kid’s silhouette: a helmet, a pair of shoulders, a rifle barrel. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannibal barreled into the fort, arrows and rocks bouncing harmlessly off his Kevlar armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I thought to aim for the sand barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see anything but boxes, barrels, old things, and some rolls of barbed wire. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hagrid!” cried Hermione, leaping up, hurrying around the table the long way to avoid the barrel of maggots, and putting an arm around his shaking shoulders. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “We ain’t all Klan,” he was saying to Dr. Hawkins, who rushed over to help him heave the barrel up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Feigning an equal gravity, Sam made an elegant leg, and delivered a short, sharp kick to the barrel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She counts—silos and hay barrels and barns. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton; the legs had shrunk so that the knees were thicker than the thighs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I’ll go take it off, hang on . He stumped out of the cabin, and they saw him washing himself vigorously in the water barrel outside the window. “Eau de cologne?” said Hermione in amazement. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “You guys fall into the same flour barrel as us?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure Grover was going to barrel straight through the gates of Hades’s palace, but his shoes veered sharply to the right and dragged him in the opposite direction. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z With that pronouncement, the hangman kicked the barrel away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I pressed a small button set into the barrel and the gun emitted a tone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One got out with the barrel of his rifle angled down. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Dongan didn’t think the extra barrel that Johnson had to keep was clean enough. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I can still feel the barrel between my eyebrows. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But Victor just pushed the barrel out of his face and then fished the keys out of his pocket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “At least I’m man enough to keep that flour barrel full,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Within seconds he saw two bright lights barreling out of the dark. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Janie laughed and drew two quarts of syrup from the barrel and Joe Starks pumped the water bucket full of cool water. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Above their heads the frozen wheels, barrels, hooks, flies, cams, gears, and all the other intricate parts of Fry’s giant clock. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z From the windows of condemned hotels, from fire escapes and balconies, from behind cars jacked up in front yards, they extended the barrels of their assorted guns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had to hold it against my hip with one hand on the trigger and the other wrapped around the barrel. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the plant continued pumping out heavy water, which was piped into barrels and shipped to Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab the barrel of Bob's gun, spinning around and using my momentum to wrest it from his grip. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The sailor on the barrel saw him, too. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do you think they'll take somebody like you, right off the bat? Why you've got to know all these catechisms and credos and believe in them, lock, stock and barrel. A girl with your sense!" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The only time I let my feelings out is when I lie in bed at night and listen to the distant krump of explosions and barrel bombs, to the alarms and sirens after an airstrike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “I looked for the barrel of smoked meat, too. And baskets of dried oysters. Gone.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We sold the zoo, lock, stock and barrel. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Fury had swung her aft catapult to fire back at the city, but she lacked the range; the barrels of pitch were shattering under the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I hurry to the closest barrel and pry open the top. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But this has left the center of the cavernous hold dark, except for the faint glow of stasis gel barrels between empty pods around the perimeter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The half barrel floated into the parking lot. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He trotted up to the press box and made the wildly popular announcement that if his horse won, he’d send up a barrel of champagne for the reporters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves demanded that those barrels be stopped before reaching German soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the women almost dropped the crockery when one of them tried to lift her skirt with the barrel of his gun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Crab waited until it seemed like Grandpop was done, then continued explaining what was what: the hammer, the barrel, the grip, the sight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Trash was left near the door in a rusted metal barrel. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He fought to come to the surface, and he expected a rifle barrel to be shoved into his face when he opened his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Climbing into that trash barrel made me look like a mess. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z As he barreled up the road laughing, Uncle Walter screamed at him, “Henry, slow down, dammit!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the shadows stood vats and barrels and mounds of dark matter, possibly soil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And he always made sure to fill the water barrel from the stream before he left for the night. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Now he braced his arms on the top of the crate where he’d taken cover and let loose with both barrels. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As we worked, cane juice would run down a trough into a barrel. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually there was a good supply of salt fish kept in barrels, but fish had not been plentiful the past summer, so now the supply was meager. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The broken tables had been replaced, even if they were just wooden pallets resting on the tops of plastic barrels. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z When our barrels are close to empty, Captain Smith goes to trade with the natives for grain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He laughed with the speed, reveled in it, roared with it—the Frog like a train barreling down a mountain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Water barrels being carried into the gym, with a heavily armed entourage, and people trying to push their way through to those barrels with all the anguish of a baroque painting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Instead, it was crowded with troops, row after row of them in gray uniforms, two hundred soldiers at least—and every barrel of every gun was pointed directly at them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It wasn't strange to see him pretending to crawl up the lockers, or for him to perform tactical movements like barrel rolls in the middle of the hallway. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He slipped on a piece of broken barrel and slid down the dune, landing on his fake rabbit tail in a tidal pool. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I went over and looked at the wooden lid on top of the meal barrel. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He found his friends again near the concrete monkey barrels and started playing with them like he hadn’t missed a beat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The hydra barreled toward him, blocking his view of the giant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s different from the guns we had in the city—it doesn’t have a barrel that shifts to the side, or the same tension in the trigger, or even the same distribution of weight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The puddle immediately trickled down to the attic and, as luck would have it, landed in and next to the potato barrel. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I ignore the gun barrels pointed at my head and focus on Lynn’s face, which is now yellowish instead of white. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He tried to set down, without anyone’s noticing, the small barrel he carried under one arm, but Kit’s glance was quick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He was doing his aerial stunts: barrel rolls and vertical figure eights, or whatever he did. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He half expected Wylan wouldn’t follow, but he could hear the merchling behind him, breathing hard, a low whistle in his lungs as they pounded toward the next stack of barrels. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He ran steadily, mechanically, his barrel legs pumping like a metronome. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I started dragging things from all over the kitchen and piling them up against the door—a barrel half-filled with drinking water, a scuttle half-filled with coal and several tin chairs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z So Pa would take the ramrod from its place under the gun barrel, and fasten a piece of clean cloth on its end. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As the monster barreled past, I drove the broken horn straight into his side, right up under his furry rib cage. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Another time, she told a servant to show me how to clean a chamber pot: “Make her put her own nose to the barrel to make sure it’s clean.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there was no wagon or wooden barrels. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Next he put the ramrod back in its place against the gun barrel. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashid focused on that and not on the way the barrel was leveled at him or how hard it was for him to catch his breath. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It faked happiness, faked welcome, but it did not make her feel generous, this juke joint, barrel hooch, tonk house, music. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The onlookers crowded forward as bales and barrels and knobby bundles were passed over the sides into their eager hands. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, driving to his apartment, I stopped at the garden and unloaded a large plastic trash barrel and a shovel. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The rings of concentric circles along its barrel fluctuate through a rainbow of glowing colors as the weapon powers up. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Its long silver barrel was embellished with cottonwood leaves and clusters of seedpods, its ivory handle inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I would have happily chopped off the heads of a barrel full of eels to escape another afternoon trapped with men whose voices droned on and on and on like rumbling, dusty grindstones. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the pigs with the barrel of my gun, trying to get one of them in my sight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The last barrel was tucked behind the others. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Nose still in his book, he scooped a mound of flour from the barrel into Cady’s container. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A contributor to Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser who went by the initials “A. B.” could be seen poking around rainwater barrels in his neighborhood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was an Astra 7.65 caliber with a short barrel and it jumped so sharply when you let it off that there was no question of hitting anything. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z No more riding in the hold with barrels of salt cod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’re marooned in a calm sea, with barrels of wine and no water, there are two things you shouldn’t do: drink the wine, or drink the sea. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad barrels out of the living room like a battering ram, Mom and Rosemarie fluttering behind him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But what I carried in my head and deeper in my perceptions was a barrel of worms. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to escape the ruthless business of sugarcane as slaves cut, pounded, boiled, and poured it into sticky barrels, bound for Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Finally I give up trying to rouse him and concentrate on rigging the barrels like Mr. Woodwell told me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The hardness of the camp, the coldness of the dark night, the death of Dapir, all slam through me like a barrel bomb, ripping my heart to pieces. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z We came upon a capsized dinghy in the mud, mostly rotted, and barrels half-sunk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The man behind me shoves me with the rifle barrel again, this time causing me to stumble. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He crossed half dragging the child and went sorting through tools standing in a barrel under the shed roof. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There were several guns and one of them had two barrels. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart beats faster than the time I thought a barrel cactus was a gnome, on one of Mom and my fairy hunts. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Servants wheel in tiered trays bursting with skin-color pastilles and rouge pots, brushes and combs and barrel irons, tonics and creams, bei-powder bundles, waxes and perfumes, measuring rods and metal instruments, and sharpened kohl pencils. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Every morning they circled the large, empty oil barrels that served as garbage cans. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I was barreling up the ramp to the top-floor balcony and slammed into her, knocking her into an Apollo space capsule. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw picking his way delicately around barrels of molasses, bales, ox teams, a familiar, fantastic figure. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain could feel the massed power; it was like being near great barrels of gunpowder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I like that I barrel ahead despite the obstacles she raises. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And, really, what could be said, what needed saying, when you’d shoved the barrel of your gun into your wife’s mouth? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “And if that don’t work, there’s always the rain barrel.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z No one was saying much, just Watching as Mr. Tripp circled the raft, tightening a rope, checking the barrel tops, and trying to make it about as shipshape as Aeneas would have made a warship. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He built a fire in the cabin’s barrel stove, then hung the clothes across the room on a makeshift clothesline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The fire’s reflection leads along the gun barrel, over the sight and hammer, to the soldier’s ecstatic face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was an old silver beauty, with detailing in the pearl handle, a shine on the barrel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The man’s mask was caught by the wind, and it barreled away over the cement. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Baba takes up his own luggage, ties the blankets over the empty water barrel, checks that nothing is left. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I looked up, and I was staring into the barrel of a gun. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Winifred and Constance lifted the barrel on to the parapet edge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I cringe, remembering the pinpricks like ant bites, and can’t help the side glance at the barrel of stasis gel right next to the pod. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She felt as though she were in a barrel going over the Niagara Falls. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She plucked a red blossom from a barrel cactus and fixed it in her hair. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z That way he got a little rest, and we didn’t run the risk of rounding a comer and barreling into a fallen tree or slow-moving cart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Merrill Bobbs, the man who sold fishing bait by the river, had somehow rolled a huge barrel of drinking water all the way from his house and was struggling to right it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “No, for the ladies. If the bucket don’t convince them to set, you dunk them in the rain barrel a time or two and turn ’em loose. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Clarence shook my hand and nodded at the gun barrel over my shoulder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He stood and went to the door and found himself staring into the barrel of a gun. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Except that he was losing barrels of grease from the back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s barreling up the stairs and into the trailer to see for himself what’s inside—and what isn’t. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z My classmates from upstate left for one last long weekend home with their spouses and kids before joining me, down in the bottom of the barrel. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, we broke down their doors and went inside their homes. And ... I’d... I’d sweep the barrel of my machine gun around the room and fire and fire until the smoke blinded me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t think the taxpayers would be too keen on hearing that their elected official traveled in unrivaled luxury while they were forced to ride in barrels pushed along by clanking old engines. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He spotted a barrel stave and pounced upon it. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the rifle again and swung the tip of the barrel straight up into the air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Cora tested the water in one of the barrels. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A group of goblins would corner a stray brother dwarf, pin him down, and then the leader would give him the double barrels straight in the face. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z His dad barreled into the kitchen and scooped his mom into his arms. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A train of mules trailed behind them, carrying chests and ~ casks and barrels, and hampers of delectables to keep the lord of cheese from growing peckish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He came closer, holding the barrel of the gun in line with the tip of Sr. Rivera’s nose. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z While he was taking them over to a trash barrel, Chester jumped up on the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert took up his hom again, filled it with beer from a barrel in the comer, and thrust it at Ned. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His shop was a flurry of good smells—jars, barrels, small mountains of spicy scent. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He smelled like a vinegar barrel or a sour angel. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He did barrel rolls and wing-over-wing spins and even flew the plane straight down the street above their heads, inverted, then landed smoothly and taxied the plane right back to where they stood. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The navigator sits on a leaky barrel of yuck that was once full of food, but its stench testifies to the fact that the foodstuffs have decayed into something other. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In my presence, convict number 5,458 was showered with one and a half barrels of water. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The families of the oligarchy forgot all about the barrel organ, and Marcos became the star attraction of the season. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While Kaz backed to the wall to join his crew, that gun barrel stayed right against his cheek. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually the citizens of Wethersfield claimed their orders, the merchants from Hartford counted off the barrels of nails and oil and salt and only a handful of idlers still stood about. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Then she tipped the barrel and the fish plunked into the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z After my—our—visitor leaves with an apologetic smile in my direction, the words barrel out of me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I decided against it, lowering the barrel to his chest: always go for the sure target. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There was a crowd around a woman who stood on a barrel—she seemed to be telling a story or giving a speech. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I saw it coming already, like a barreling wave with a mighty undertow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The morning after he came barreling into town, Fred bought Day a bus ticket to Baltimore. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He lifted the spigot at the base of the oak barrel and captured a few ounces of amber liquid in a glass jelly jar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman rests her heavy sack against a barrel. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They’d fitted it with barrels, and a channel in the floor caught runoff and funneled it out to the gardens. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z On each wagon, a massive gun barrel—somewhere between the shape of a rifle and a cannon—jutted out into the space where a team of horses would ordinarily be hitched. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I get to him before he gets to the spear, barreling into him with my shoulder. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I felt the metal barrel on my temple. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Jack’s saying, “here’s the deal. She’s a nice lady, but kind of uptight. You know—not exactly a barrel of laughs.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A toy soldier, sighting down the barrel of a rifle pressed tight to its hard green cheek, aiming at whatever happened to be in the way. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We pulled up a hill until we reached a trailer that was glowing in the darkness, lit by a fire burning in a barrel out front. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He saw a Lakota fighting with the Indian policemen, so he thrust his rifle, with a long bayonet on the end of the barrel, at Crazy Horse.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We spent the morning in assigned chores: gathering water from the rain barrels to boil, coaxing the small vegetables in the garden to stay alive, washing clothes, checking the trap lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The end of the barrel touched his chin. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard marches toward us and sticks the barrel of her gun between us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The oarsmen came leaping aboard, sturdy men with great arms, while longshoremen rolled water barrels thundering out the dock and stowed them under the rowers’ benches. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In addition to bricks and wood, we carried barrels of kerosene, flour, and even small fishing boats, all for the NKVD. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Charlestown,” he answered, settling on an upturned barrel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Only the nurslings did not work at picking up the potatoes and placing them in the barrels. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some had even uncovered barrels to catch the rain water, which they loved to drink and cook in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Either the copper percussion cap might fail to spark, or the black powder in the barrel might fail to ignite because of dampness. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Kepler measured the volumes of barrels with his thin slices, Cavalieri added up an infinite number of these indivisible zeros to figure out the area or the volume of a geometric object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z |
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